Vivaldi & Zani - Sonatas for 2 Violins
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Label: Brilliant Classics
Cat No: 96818
Format: CD
Number of Discs: 1
Genre: Chamber
Release Date: 2nd February 2024
Contents
Works
Sonata for 2 violins and optional continuo in B flat major, RV77Sonata for 2 violins and optional continuo in F major, RV68
Sonata for 2 violins and optional continuo in F major, RV70
Sonata for 2 violins and optional continuo in G major, RV71
Canone tempo giusto
Duetto for 2 violins in E flat major
Artists
Compagnia de VioliniWorks
Sonata for 2 violins and optional continuo in B flat major, RV77Sonata for 2 violins and optional continuo in F major, RV68
Sonata for 2 violins and optional continuo in F major, RV70
Sonata for 2 violins and optional continuo in G major, RV71
Canone tempo giusto
Duetto for 2 violins in E flat major
Artists
Compagnia de VioliniAbout
The palette of colours and expressive effects used by Vivaldi in these sonatas is truly impressive: arpeggios, double stops, high-register passages, extremely complex articulations requiring exceptional bow technique, ornate cantabile lines (to be further ornamented by the performer) and even more radical cantabile in the central movements. Here, Vivaldi’s mastery is evident in a sensitive use of lines that are disarming in their simplicity yet tremendously expressive, using a modest language of triplets, appogiaturas and Lombard rhythms in perfect amounts to maximum effect.
A handwritten inventory of the music collection of the noble Collalto family at Brtnice attests along with 15 concertos by Vivaldi to a Duetto, or rather, a Sonata for 2 violins in five movements by one Andrea Zani, a composer who emulated Vivaldi’s music and style to the degree that historians assume Zani studied under Vivaldi for a time. (That being said, Zani stands out as one of the purest and most interesting composers of instrumental music in Italy in the first half of the 18th century. His works – at once original and innovative – are largely yet to be studied and performed.)
Sadly all that survives of the Collalto collection is that inventory, but Zani’s Duetto has come down to us via three sources preserved in Sweden. As in Vivaldi’s compositions, the movements in Zani’s work are bipartite in form. Zani, too, establishes the colour palette of his compositions with highly effective progressions, employing the whole expressive armoury fielded by his idol, Vivaldi. Zani’s writing also makes frequent use of a great rhythmic propulsion. Finally, and in contrast to Vivaldi, Zani did not provide a bass ad libitum, indicating his clear intent for duo rather than trio sonata performance.
Compagnia de Violini:
- Alessandro Ciccolini (violin)
- Domenico Scicchitano (violin)
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